[Mesa-users] Double Roche lobe overflow

[Pablo Marchant]

Ninja'd by Tassos it seems

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Pablo Marchant <pamarca at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also, there is an implementation of a simple contact prescription I
> developed, which is explained in
>
> http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=
> 2016A%26A...588A..50M&db_key=AST&link_type=ABSTRACT&high=51ac7f347015896
>
> you can use this by setting mdot_scheme = "contact" in your
> inlist_project. Not quite what you say, but I think under certain
> conditions its a more physically correct choice.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Jared Brooks via Mesa-users <
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>
>> Hey Ken,
>>
>> Check out my other_wind_hook on mesastar.org (
>> http://cococubed.asu.edu/mesa_market/add-ons.html). It sounds like it
>> should fit your needs. I tried my best to document it well, so hopefully it
>> should make sense without further explanation here. Please let me know if
>> it is confusing and/or needs more explanation.
>>
>> -Jared
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:50 PM Ken Shen <kenshen at astro.berkeley.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, hope I'm not duplicating a previous question.  I'm interested in
>>> using MESA's binary capabilities to model systems where both components
>>> might overflow their Roche lobes at the same time.  The basic prescription
>>> would be to evaluate both stars' overflow values ("rl_relative_gap" in
>>> binary_data), calculate Mdots as necessary via Ritter or Kolb, and transfer
>>> from one star to the other or from both stars out of the system, depending
>>> on which one(s) are undergoing RLOF.  Mass leaving the system would carry
>>> the specific angular momentum of the binary.
>>>
>>> I've looked into the various other_ binary hooks, but none seems to be
>>> quite right, especially for changing the nominal accretor's Mdot as it
>>> expands to fill its Roche lobe.  For single stars, there is an
>>> other_adjust_mdot, which would work except it doesn't know about the Roche
>>> radius, and there is no binary equivalent.  Maybe there's a way to pass in
>>> binary data into other_adjust_mdot?
>>>
>>> Any tips?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ken
>>>
>>>
>
>
> --
> Pablo Marchant Campos
> M.Sc on Astrophysics, Universidad Católica de Chile
> PhD on Astrophysics, Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn
>



-- 
Pablo Marchant Campos
M.Sc on Astrophysics, Universidad Católica de Chile
PhD on Astrophysics, Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Universität Bonn
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